CAF Completers and Lead Professional

Course Description

The CAF is an early assessment of a child’s needs that is used across all professions and agencies.  This a full day course will give you thorough grounding in the CAF and the ECM agenda, and thus the process for  completing a  CAF assessment.

Who should attend?

All staff who provide and/or assess  services to children/young people and their families, and  have already been identified by the school/ agency as  required  to conduct the assessment, and  complete the CAF form.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the reason and purpose for having a Common Assessment Framework (CAF), and how the CAF will lead to better outcomes for children, young people and their families;

  • Understand and put into practice the CAF process, and apply your specific knowledge and skills to complete and become familiar with and practice using the relevant CAF paperwork

  • Understand the issues of consent, confidentiality, data protection and information sharing, as they apply to the CAF

  • Contribute to the process of working effectively with other agencies to implement the CAF, and understand how it will work locally and more widely within Hampshire

Additional Notes:

  • All courses start at 9.30am and are due to finish at 4.30pm - delegates are expected to be there from 9.15am

  • PLEASE NOTE: All delegates will be expected to have an overview of CAF before they arrive on the Completer course. Completing the CAF Awareness E-learning course, reading the Pre-course information or attending a local CAF briefing will provide you with the basic level of awareness to undertake this course.

    Fordetails of dates and locations of courses, see below:

Date Location
14/11/08 New Forest (Brockenhurst)
14/11/08 Basingstoke
01/12/08 Havant
05/12/08 East Hants (Alton)
09/12/08 New Forest (Brockenhurst)
14/1/09 Winchester
15/1/09 Hart (Farnham)
16/1/09 East Hants (Bordon)
16/1/09 New Forest (Brockenhurst)
29/1/09 Havant
2/2/09 East Hants (Petersfield)
11/2/09 Eastleigh
25/2/09 Test Valley (Andover)
26/2/09 Basingstoke
2/3/09 East Hants (Alton)
14/3/09 New Forest (Brockenhurst)
17/3/09 Eastleigh
18/3/09 Andover
19/3/09 Havant
29/4/09 Winchester
30/4/09 Basingstoke
12/5/09 New Forest (Brockenhurst)
12/5/09 Eastleigh
5/6/09 Test Valley (Romsey)
11/6/09 Basingstoke
1/7/09 Winchester
24/7/09 Eastleigh
21/10/09 Eastleigh
7/12/09 Eastleigh

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